FLINT (AP) - A worker's compensation claim in Michigan could require a full tank of gas.

The Michigan Supreme Court says a person injured on the job has no right to have a worker's compensation hearing in the same county. The court recently reversed a decision from the state appeals court in the case of Lawrence Younkin, who injured his back in Genesee County.

Younkin sued after officials consolidated offices and moved some hearings to Eaton County from Flint, a distance of roughly 70 miles.

Union leaders are applauding a promise by state Democratic lawmakers to reinstate workplace safety regulations in Michigan.

The names of dozens of Michigan workers who died on the job were read aloud during a ceremony in Lansing. There are about 120 deaths in the workplace every year in Michigan.

Karla Swift is the president of the state AFL-CIO. She says Michigan workers need good safety regulations in place to protect them on the job "so that they come home after a day’s work in the same condition that they left in."

The number of people who died on the job in Michigan increased in 2010. Michigan State University researchers track workplace deaths. Researcher Ken Rosenman says agriculture recorded the most on-the-job fatalities last year. He says workplace homicides also more than doubled in 2010.

In all, 123 people died in the workplace in Michigan last year.

Rosenman insists most, if not all, job deaths could have been prevented.